map texas de page (4 resultados)

No Binding. Condición: Good. Large folded sheet, including a geologic map, discussion of geology and economic geology, and references cited. Several tears where folded and a couple of sentences underlined; o/w in good condition. Map.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 166 pages, + ads, original burnt umber cloth, spine gilt stamped with title and elaborate floral and vine design. Several small stains on cover, minor edge wear, scattered light to moderate foxing. A small section of upper decorative border of map supplied in facsimile (not affecting map proper.) Contemporary pencil ownership inscription of Georgia engineer C.D. Vincent on front free flyleaf, C.D. Vincent Athens Ga. Inscribed on page 161. Page 166 same person writes, All cannot tell the truth about Texas. overall a very good copy.

27 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches. Nicely composed map of the state with counties colored at the time of publication. Dramtically heightened for the visual hierarchy are the period railroads. The Texas and Pacific Railroad runs off the map to the west meet with the Southern Pacific in at Sierra Blanco (1881). The Missouri, Kansas and Texas (KATY Road)) runs off the map to the north. Dallas and Houston are shown as major railroad hubs., Very good with minor separations at fold extremities expertly repaired with archival mending tape.

Second edition, after the first of the year before. An account of Page's travels, undertaken in the spring of 1839, from the Sabine via Nacogdoches, Houston and Bastrop to San Antonio, returning to Houston by way of Texana and Goliad. "[This account] brings back to us now in a charming fashion the Texas of 1839" - Streeter. Dr. Page was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. The engraved map, which shows eastern Texas only, is different from the map in the first edition, which shows Mexico, with an inset of Texas. HOWES P9, "aa." STREETER TEXAS 1604 (note). RAINES, p.167. RADER 2568 (1st ed). CLARK III:221. SABIN 93969. [4],vi,[11]-166pp. including map. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Ink stamps on front and rear endpapers. Light foxing on early leaves. Overall very good.